This is ON TOPIC, Richard, gimme a break! Controlling usage of roads, or whatever is just another way to keep us miners out of the forests and I hate it.
And get a load of this:
There is this one road, on the maps, as a 4-wheel access road only on my claims, ok?
That road is rutted badly.
The rain water and snow runoff collects in these ruts.
Water runs downhill.
So does the rut mud.
The muddy rainwater joins lower down creeks.
And I get citations from the Dept of E. Quality for polluting the streams, and I haven't even
been on the damn thing yet, except on foot!
What about the mudslide above from the recent tremblor out here?
I suppose I'm guilty of polluting from that source, too, right?
There is NO common sense in the Forest Service...just bureaucrat sell-outs to the Sierra Club, et al.
The part that is on private land above me has been allowed to be closed by that land owner.
I need 500' of it which is ON my claims to get access to the stream on MY claims.
That part of the road is going to be closed also. Go Figure!
They haven't done the closing yet, but have denied, in writing MY access to my creek
already written up and approved in my plans.
See how these custards work? Makes my blood boil.
Keeping new roads from being made in new places hurts loggers allright.
But these roads have been there for dozens of years and they want to
declare those with roads already on them as roadless as well.
And then when you get one, they want to close it and do so quite
effectively. They haul boulders, fallen trees with 3' trunks, build impassable
"water bars" etc., just to keep us ordinary folks out, let alone the miners.
Good for Bush. Hope he guts the damn land grab ole Clinton put through! |
